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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Encourage the boy to wear kilts.

Indeed. A kilt is very much a man's garment, and Scottish culture has penetrated Germany, with highland games festivals and Scottish country dancing societies popping up around the country.

28 posted on 08/30/2012 9:42:43 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Years ago Scotland festivals in the US were great, but then they became too big, too commercial, and too expensive.

When I went to one way back when, held on Saturday on a big elementary school playground, they had one insane guy with a really old style gun. Basically a log sliced lengthwise, with a groove cut through the middle, and held together with a few iron clamps. The front clamp had a 5’ long iron leg that was pounded a foot into the ground. It fired, I would guess, an inch-sized lead ball. His target was a bale of hay.

After loading it with a lot of black powder, everyone had to stand a LONG way off, in case the gun exploded, a real possibility.

It knocked him on his rear. I’m not sure if he hit the bale of hay, but he was still looking for the lead ball when I left.


30 posted on 08/30/2012 11:24:58 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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